Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 08:44:24 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: dannyman@dannyland.org (dannyman) Cc: aaweber@austin.rr.com, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: We exist in M$ eyes.. Message-ID: <199902150844.BAA11876@usr08.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <19990214211329.D25426@stumpy.dannyland.org> from "dannyman" at Feb 14, 99 09:13:29 pm
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> > FreeBSD is a one paragraph danger to M$ > [...] > > Linux is the next 13 paragraphs of danger. > > I wonder if we have a 1:13 ratio of users or whether we are being over-counted > or under-counted. :) > > But then, since accurate numbers are impossible, I think we all have little > choice than to wonder. I like to look at it in a more positive light: o Microsoft says FreeBSD is a UNIX implementation. o Microsoft is 1/13th as threatened by it because HotMail, a Microsoft company, is still using it. On the negative side: o If you don't believe that Microsoft is taking the HotMail system apart piece by piece, from which effort they will be able to build a 10% better Microsoft version, then you are a moron. Microsoft bought HotMail for the R&D aspect of having a wind-up toy that works on which to model their knock-off toy. Bet that the next version of Exchange and IIS will be able to replace the Solaris and FreeBSD at HotMail; it's practically money in the bank. o Think of all the statistics that they will get that HotMail was too busy or too stupid to collect without Microsoft there. Even an engineer with a near room temperature IQ (Fahrenheit) would have a hard time failing to utilize that data to advanatage in a product design or three. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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